PhD Career Stories

Kyriaki Liadaki finished her PhD in Immunology at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and then continued postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and Karolinska Institutet. In this episode of PhD Career Stories, Kyriaki tells her story on how she came to make the life changing decision to leave academia and become a Math/Science Teacher at a bilingual school in Stockholm.

In episode four of "PhD Career Stories" Tina Persson returns for a "tips & tricks"-themed episode. In this podcast, we learn more on how we can prepare ourselves for our next career move by making an inventory of our skills and rewriting our CV:s.

Michele Manzo started his career change in April 2015, after completing his PhD in Applied Physics at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. In this episode of "PhD Career Stories", Michele tells the story about his journey from academia to industry, which lasted almost a year. We learn how Michele, after a few hundreds of applications and with a little reverse engineering of the job hunting system as well as...

The second episode of our new podcast "PhD Career Stories" features Maria Sjögren , the researcher who left academia to become a change agent and digital evangelist. In this "tips & tricks"-themed episode, we learn more on how we can take control of our online presence and manage our digital reputation.

On this very first episode of our new podcast "PhD Career Stories",  Tina Persson  talks about her career story and how her experiences inspired her to start this podcast. We learn how Tina,  after 20 years in academia, finally found her dream job as an Professional Academic Career Adviser and Coach supporting PhD students, researchers and professionals to find career possibilities.